Taiwan Defends Tech Giant Foxconn Over China's Tax Investigation

Taiwan's Deputy Premier Cheng Wen-tsan said on Monday that Beijing's aim is to "distort Taiwan's democracy".

Taiwan defended tech giant Foxconn on Monday after China launched an investigation into several of the firm's sites, saying that Taiwanese businesses should not be subjected to "political interference".

Chinese authorities are inspecting Foxconn's sites in southern Guangdong province and Jiangsu in the east, as well as carrying out on-site investigations into the company's land use in central Hunan and Hubei provinces, China's state-run Global Times reported Sunday.

It did not specify what authorities are looking into, nor any offences that Foxconn may have committed.